SPORTS
ovember 29, 1984 Page 16
The University Daily KANSAN
Swim teams in Alabama Invitational
dy CHRIS LAZZARINO
Sports Writer
The men's and women's swim teams are in Tuscaloosa, Ala. for a little good old fashioned competition.
Gary Kempt, head coach of both the men and women, said, the Alabama teams were some of the top in the nation, which would give his swimmers the competition they needed to improve.
"The men are ranked 10th nationally and the women are seventh nationally." Kempf said Tuesday. "And I think they are both underderrated. They should both be in the top five. They are perennial powerhouses, they have an excellent program."
The teams will meet in a dual today and compete in the Alabama Invitational tomorrow. Saturday and Sunday.
Kempt said the meet, which is the first between the two schools in 19 years will give the women national meet will be held in this year.
"With the men, in every division, we are just not quite their caliber." Kempf said. "We're a young program, but we do have individuals who can do very well. It makes the best musical boost wherever way it goes.
"If we win, of course it will help because we are heavy, heavy underdogs, probably as underdogs as we have ever been. If we lose, we will still get great experience. The important thing. Kempf said, is that they are competing against teams that have already displayed lower times than KU has produced
"For the program to make progress, we have to continue seeing new and better competition," Kempf said.
The divers will be going to Lincoln, Neb., for the Nebraska Invitational. Kempf said the divers needed to compete in a meet in which they would get in 11 dives, which is the number they would have at the Big Eight Championships and at nationals.
3 players to trade uniforms
By GREG DAMMAN Sports Editor
Last week, Marvin Mattox, Tony Berry and Wes Hendricks checked in their football uniforms after completing the season as members of the Kansas football team.
Tuesday night, less than two weeks after the Jayhawks' final football game Nov. 19 against Missouri, they had checked out basketball uniforms and were on the court in Allen Field House for their first KU junior varsity basketball practice.
Kansas junior varsity coach John Calipari said that the addition of 6-foot 4 Mattox, 6.1 Berry and 6.2 Eriksen would be the team where it needs it most.
"You can't really tell after two days of practice." Coriari said. "But they'll add some depth and height. All three of them are bigger than what we've had."
Mattox, who Calipari calls a "leaper," started as a freshman at Garey High School in Romona, Calif. Mattox said that he hadn't considered playing basketball yet. His varsity basketball team until away through the football season
A LOT of people started asking me if I was going out for basketball." Mattox said, "Coach (Mike) Gottfried agreed with me. We agreed that if my grades aren't what they're supposed to be after I've played a while, I'll stop."
"Ballhandling is my strongpoint," he said. "When I went home over Thanksgiving break my high school coach told me to try to play guard here."
Mattox played on the frontline during his freshman year in high school, but played guard and forward for the next three years.
Calipari said, "We're not really playing any kind of positions. He'll play everything in our offense."
Mattox played defensive end for the KU football team, but he said that football wasn't his favorite sport.
"I like basketball more," he said.
"But I like playing football too,
especially hitting quarterbacks."
Mattox, who weighs about 190 pounds, said the football coaches wanted him to gain 20 pounds by next season. He said that playing basketball wouldn't keep him from gaining weight, although most of his weight gain would come in the spring and summer.
Unlike Mattox, Berry said that football was his favorite sport, but that he went out for basketball to keep busy.
"TLL JUST LIFT weights and eat a lot," he said.
"I've always got to get involved in something," he said. "I never like to sit still. I can't just sit at home and watch television, unless there's sports on."
Berry was all-state in basketball at Assumption High School in East St. Louis, Ill. He was a member of the Louis
KU track team last year and plans to go out for outdoor track again this year.
"My high school didn't have a track team," he said, "I didn't know how fast I was until I came up here and started running 10 in football."
Berry now has tried his hand at three different sports at KU, and he hasn't ruled out trying a fourth.
"BASEBALL WAS THE sport I grew up playing," he said. "It was the first sport I started getting into. Playing here has entered my mind, but I'm not that good of a fielder. I'm more of a hitter."
Even though Mattox, Berry and Hendricks have had just two days of practice and will only have two more before the junior varsity season opener Saturday against Neohos Community College, they haven't had problems learning Calipari's system.
system.
"We got a playbook and I studied it a lot," Mattox said. "I learned the plays pretty fast."
Calipari said, "I asked them. 'Is this stuff tougher than football plays?' and they said, 'you guys only have two plays to remember, in football we have about 50.'"
DESPITE THEIR LATE start, Calipari said the three would see action in the early part of the season.
"We only play five games and then we go on break," Calipari said. "If I don't play them, it would be just like wasting a semester for them."
KU football player Tony Berry shoots a free throw during junior varsity basketball practice. Berry, Marvin Mattox and Wes Hendricks are members of the KU football team who have decided to play junior varsity basketball for the Jayhawks.
RIS MAGERL/KANSAN
Former USC back Rickv Bell dies
By United Press International
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Former University of Southern California football star Ricky Bell, runnerup for the 1976 Heisman Trophy who went on to play in the National Football League, died yesterday from a cardiac arrest caused by a rare degenerative disease.
Bell. 29, died at 11:06 a.m. at Daniel Freeman Hospital, spokeswoman Christie Plank said.
Bell learned in November 1982 that he suffered from dermatomyositis, a rare inflammatory muscle disease that attacks the heart, muscles and skin, his physician, Allen Metzger, said.
Plank said the disease caused a major vessel to rupture, and subsequent bleeding into the left side of the chest caused the cardiac arrest.
Bell's 10-year-old son, Ricky Jr., and his brother, Nathan, were with him when he died. Bell's wife did not reach the hospital before his death.
While at USC from 1974-76, Bell carried on the tradition of outstanding Trojan tailbacks by rushing for 3,689 yards for a 5.2 yard a carry average and 28 touchdowns.
He was the nation's leading rusher with 1,875 yards as a junior and finished third in the Heisman voting in 1975. He finished second to Tony Dorsett for the coveted award in his
senior year. He was named to the All-America team both years.
Bell was a first-round pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1977, where he played under his old USC coach, John McKay.
He was traded to the San Diego Chargers in 1962, but appeared in only four games and rushed for six yards before the disease ended his career.
Chargers spokesman Bill Johnston said Bell weighted 225 pounds when he joined the club but dropped to 196 by the end of season, his lightest weight since high school.
Bell was placed on non-football injury reserve and retired during training camp of the 1983 season.
Former KC city councilman to aid effort to keep Kings
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A former city councilman who was instrumental in bringing the Kings to Kansas City more than a decade ago has agreed to participate in negotiations aimed at keeping the basketball club from leaving.
The National Basketball Association franchise and the city are currently embroiled in a dispute involving the Kings' lease of Kemper Arena. There has been talk that one of the club owners
wants to move the Kings to Sacramento, California.
City Manager David Olsen sided Tuesday that he had asked Sab Capra, the former city councilman, to intervene in resolving the dispute. Olson cited Capra's rapport with Kings General Manager Joe Axelson, his knowledge of the City Council and the community and his role in bringing the team to Kansas City.
"I asked he'd he dm'f facilitating the process," Olson told the Kansas City Times. "He, out of interest in the city and the future of the Kings' basketball team, agreed to do that."
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